Lung is a talented fighter but prefers to spend his time loafing around and picking fights, despite orders from his grandfather not to fight. Unknown to him, a brutal general has been slaughtering all the people from his grandfather’s clan. When the general recognizes Lung’s style of kung fu during one of his street fights, he hunts down Lung’s grandfather and kills him.

Playground

2021

French

7.3

♡ 13

100%

Laura Wandel Director

Naël Ammama as Ismaël

Michel Israël as Le directeur

Kylian Decorne as Le professeur de gym

Émile Salamone as Matteo

When Nora witnesses Abel being bullied by other kids, she rushes to protect him by warning their father. But Abel forces her to remain silent. Caught in a conflict of loyalty, Nora will ultimately try to find her place, torn between children's and adult's worlds.

Tree of Knowledge

1981

Danish

7.2

♡ 2

Nils Malmros Director

Line Arlien-Søborg as Anne-Mette / student

Eva Gram Schjoldager as Elin / student

Erno Müller as Hr. Særlang

Jan Johansen as Niels / student

As a group of Danish children pass into adolescence, gradually the most popular girl becomes an outcast, for trivial reasons that she never understands.

A Girl on the Shore

2021

Japanese

5.4

♡ 3

Atsushi Ueda Director

Seina Nakata as Keiko Kobayashi

Yuzu Aoki as Keisuke Isobe

Jun Murakami as Keisuke's father

Ruka Ishikawa as Koume Sato

Keisuke Isobe and Koume Satou live a rather dull life. But when Koume's crush breaks her heart, their situation becomes quite unordinary. She starts a "no-strings-attached" relationship with Keisuke, whom she had previously rejected, both finding solace in the other in order to fill the emotional voids in their lives.

Samâ gôsuto

2021

Japanese

7.4

♡ 24

100%

Loundraw Director

Takako Honda as Reiko Sugisaki

Nobunaga Shimazaki as Ryo Kobayashi

Noriaki Kanze as Student

Chiaki Kobayashi as Tomoya Sugisaki

An urban legend says that lighting fireworks at an abandoned airfield will beckon the "summer ghost," a spirit that can answer any question. Three teenagers, Tomoya, Aoi, and Ryo, each have their own reason to show up one day. When a ghost named Ayane appears, she reveals she is only visible to those "who are about to touch their death." Compelled by the ghost and her message, Tomoya begins regularly visiting the airfield to uncover the true purpose of her visits.

Children

1976

English

7.1

♡ 2

33%

Terence Davies Director

Trevor Eve as Man In Shower

Kate Fahy as Neighbour

Linda Beckett as Neighbour

Elizabeth Estensen as Nurse

Robert Tucker, a young gay man who is almost without affect, sits in various waiting rooms. As he sits, he recalls events from the year of his childhood when his father dies. He's ten or eleven that year, picked on by bullies at the Catholic school he attends. He seems friendless. At home, his mother is quiet, his father is ill and angry. After his father's death, there's a wake, the coffin arrives, the body is removed. The lad grieves, alone.

Our Times

2015

Chinese

7.4

♡ 6

79%

Yu Shan Chen Director

Andy Lau as Self

Jerry Yan as TaiYu

Talu Wang as TaiYu

Vivian Sung as Truly Lin

Office worker Truly Lin goes on a journey through her memories. 20 years ago, she had a crush on the most popular guy in school. Taiyu, a ruffian and a bully, is in love with the campus belle. Truly teams up with Taiyu to tear the golden couple apart and help each other to get the ones they love.

Psychic School Wars

2012

Japanese

5.9

♡ 7

Animation

based on novel or book

Lisa Ortiz Director

Kana Hanazawa as Kahori Harukawa

Hiroaki Hirata as Kyôgoku's Familiar

Ryohei Kimura as Yû Jinno

Haruka Tomatsu as Yuriko Yamagiwa

It's a new school year at the local Junior High School i Kamakura. The school year starts off with a new transfer student Ryoichi Kyogoku who joins the 8th grade class. He has been ordered to join the school, and use his special gift of telepathy and take over their school. This boy who happens to be handsome, and be a charismatic person, gains popularity, and using his powers takes over the entire school, except for Seki. This begins a war to regain their freedom for their school and themselves.

Snoopy Presents: Lucy's School

2022

English

6.7

♡ 10

Raymond S. Persi Director

Etienne Kellici as Charlie Brown

Jacob Soley as Pigpen

Hattie Kragten as Sally

Rob Tinkler as Woodstock

The Peanuts gang is nervous about going to a new school, so Lucy starts her own. She soon learns that teaching is tougher than she thought—and that change can be a good thing.

The Adventures of Pinocchio

1996

English

5.2

♡ 14

36%

parent child relationship

school

talk show

Steve Barron Director

Wallace Shawn as Pepe the Cricket

John Sessions as Professor

Peter Locke as Unseen aristocracy

Rob Schneider as Volpe

One of puppet-maker Geppetto's creations comes magically to life. This puppet, Pinocchio, has one major desire and that is to become a real boy someday. In order to accomplish this goal he has to learn to act responsibly. This film shows you the adventures on which he learns valuable lessons.

In the House

2012

French

7.3

♡ 21

88%

François Ozon Director

Emmanuelle Seigner as Esther Artole

Kristin Scott Thomas as Jeanne Germain

Denis Ménochet as Rapha Artole père

Mehdi Meskar as Un élève du lycée Flaubert

A sixteen-year-old boy insinuates himself into the house of a fellow student from his literature class and writes about it in essays for his French teacher. Faced with this gifted and unusual pupil, the teacher rediscovers his enthusiasm for his work, but the boy’s intrusion will unleash a series of uncontrollable events.

Nussa: The Movie

2021

Indonesian

7.2

♡ 4

Bony Wirasmono Director

Ali Fikry as Jonni

Imam Darto as Papa Jonni

Widuri Sasono as Syifa

Dewi Sandra as Tante Dewi

Planning to impress his father who is coming home after being abroad for a year, Nussa the smart 9-year-old kid participates in his school’s science competition. But when he receives news that his father cancelled his trip home and is unable to attend the competition, and at the same time a new, smart student named Jonni quickly becomes his rival in the school's science competition, Nussa learns the true meaning of gratitude.

A Child Is Waiting

1963

English

7.2

♡ 13

92%

John Cassavetes Director

Butch Patrick as Boy Playing Football

Paul Stewart as Goodman

John Marley as Holland

Barbara Pepper as Miss Brown

Dr. Matthew Clark is the head of a state institution for intellectually disabled children. Jean Hansen, a former music teacher anxious to give her life some meaning, joins the staff of the hospital. Jean, who tries to shelter the children with her love, suspiciously regards Dr. Clark's stern training methods. She becomes emotionally involved with 12-year-old Reuben Widdicombe, who has been abandoned by his divorced parents.

Eating Miss Campbell

2022

English

4.5

♡ 2

50%

teacher student relationship

Liam Regan Director

Emily Haigh as Clarissa

Laurence R. Harvey as Clyde Toulon

Dani Thompson as Deetz Montgomery

Lloyd Kaufman as Dr. Samuel Weil

A vegan-goth high school student falls in love with her new English teacher and develops a problematic taste for human flesh.

The Student

2017

English

4.5

♡ 1

86%

Steven R. Monroe Director

Eric Nelsen as Arthur Fine

Wolfgang Bodison as Dean George Castle

Lindsay Hartley as Det. Barbara Keyes

Scott Vance as Phil Van Sickle

After leading a jury to wrongly sentence a man, Abigail enters her new teaching job at the law school with a newfound commitment to ethics. When she takes over her new class, it includes Vincent, an intensely ambitious student who will do anything for an A. When Abigail fails him for academic dishonesty, Vincent threatens that he will stop at nothing to get what he wants. As Vincent's devious plot begins to unravel, she must take her life into her own hands, or Vincent will take it himself.

Stewardess School

1986

English

4.3

♡ 4

26%

Ken Blancato Director

William O'Connell as Attorney

Richard Erdman as Attorney

Anita Dangler as Dowager

Bill Erwin as Orchestra Conductor

A group of varied misfits (including a former prostitute/stripper and a bumbler who can't see more than 6 inches in front of his face) enter a school to become flight attendants. Somehow, the group makes it through to the final test: a cross-country flight.

Etsivätoimisto Henkka & Kivimutka

6.2

based on novel or book

Jarkko Felin Director

Tapani Kalliomäki as Henkan isä

Rami Rusinen as Raimo

Tom Petäjä as Teuvo

Heikki Nousiainen as Vanha herra

Henkka Virtanen finds evidence of a possible crime on his way to school. With his friend J.K. Kivimutka, the boys decide to investigate what has happened, because these criminal cases are the responsibility of the detective agency they have set up. When it turns out that mailboxes in the area have disappeared during the night, the detective bureau has already two crimes to solve. A fun and exciting adventure begins, in which the boys also have to face their own fears.

First Graders

1984

Persian

7.3

♡ 6

Abbas Kiarostami Director

Mohammad Dadras as Nazem

A documentary film about a boys school in Iran. The film shows numerous, funny and moving interviews of many different young pupils of this school summoned by their superintendent for questions of discipline. The man is not severe, but clever and fair. He teaches loyalty, fellowship and righteousness to these boys. Besides these interviews, we see scenes of this school’s quotidian life.

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Playground

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Samâ gôsuto

Children

Our Times

Psychic School Wars

Snoopy Presents: Lucy's School

The Adventures of Pinocchio

In the House

Nussa: The Movie

A Child Is Waiting

Eating Miss Campbell

The Student

Stewardess School

Etsivätoimisto Henkka & Kivimutka

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